After installing the Windows 8 User Preview I joined the computer to my domain. But, I was not able to use most of the Metro apps due to Administrator restrictions. I understand this is a security feature but this is a test machine and I want to play with everything. So after making a registry… Read More »

After installing Adobe Acrobat patch 9.4.2 printing breaks for some network printers (e.g., HP 3015 or HP 2055) Go to (C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\Acrobat) Find “Adobe.Acrobat.Dependencies.manifest” Open it with notepad and delete line “22” and SAVE Reboot your computer Fixed This should fix the issue of being unable to print PDF file after installing… Read More »

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I hate it when I reboot a server or when we had a wind storm the other day it kept knocking out power and out UPS kept wanting to shut down the server gracefully. When they came back up 2-3 services didn’t restart(yes auto restart was enabled). So this script will run as a scheduled… Read More »

I am always fighting malware on someones home computer. I found this list helpful to remove autoruns. Thanks mstarks for this list. Pop quiz: how many places can an application install itself to ensure it will survive a Windows reboot? If you named the usual suspects like the run and autorun locations in the… Read More »

After installing an update to a DC that happens to be in VMware vSphere the update failed. So, I had to rollback to the snapshot I just took. after rolling back Replication to other DCs failed. In the Event viewer I found: NTDS General Errors 1113, 1115, and 2103 NTDS KCC Errors 1308 The problem seems… Read More »

I know this might be kind of late for some of you but I just had to perform an upgrade to our SQL server as our last vendor now supports SQL 2005. But I ended up with a problem. When upgrading I got an error (-1). What the hell it that? It was totally non-descript.… Read More »

We had a nice little problem the other day. We had already gone through our Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 migration a couple weeks ago, last weekend was the firewall upgrade from Pix 515 to ASA5510. For the most part, all went well. On Tuesday I overheard someone mention that external email was coming in… Read More »

Recently we encountered a need to export our wild card certificate from a Windows IIS server and use it in a Tomcat Server. The internet turned up very few results, many of which were incomplete. Here’s how I did it. Note: This assumes IIS6.1(Server 2003) but will similarly work with IIS5 and 7+ 1) Export… Read More »